I used a concoction of 1 tube of the green Lucas grease and 1 Qt. 30wt. oil.heated both in a coffee can on gas grill to mix then poured into oldgear oil bottle with spout. Mix turned solid when cool. To use I'd set bottlein the sun fer a couple of hours to heat up and be thin enuff to pour thru spout. Thin enuff to do the job in the box but thick enuff to NOT leak...

- Mike

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There's a level checking plug at the front edge of the gearbox cover. You fill it until it starts to drip out of that plug hole. Then put the plug back in, and it's good.It should be described in the owner's manual and service manuals that you have. If you don't have them, you should get them.

You can never have too much, only not enough, when there is no oil spot on the ground under the bike, you know it is time to put more in. But seriously, when it comes out the opening on the front of the gearbox, you are full.

The idea is the grease is viscous enough to not come out of the bearing, so I wasn't sure if it was viscous enough to not really pour evenly, and so maybe it would be easy to overfill or under-fill, depending on how the grease fills the box, and when it starts to leave the hole. I take it if I heat it up, it won't be an issue?

Sorry, my only experience with grease is from a grease gun, and that doesn't pour at all...

The idea is the grease is viscous enough to not come out of the bearing, so I wasn't sure if it was viscous enough to not really pour evenly, and so maybe it would be easy to overfill or under-fill, depending on how the grease fills the box, and when it starts to leave the hole. I take it if I heat it up, it won't be an issue?

Sorry, my only experience with grease is from a grease gun, and that doesn't pour at all...

The original intent was to have a certain amount of the factory grease inside the gearbox, and then any top-offs thereafter would be with 50wt motor oil. The stuff gets mixed around in the gearbox by the gear motion, after it gets heated up. Just fill it up to the level plug, and the gearbox will do the rest of the job.

The 90w did drain a little into the outside transmission cover (though not on the floor), and I'm going to try to get a grease/oil mix in there. I liked the post about heating up 30w with grease and pouring it in the transmission; I might try that.

I put 90WT gear oil in my RH shift 2000,because the previous owner said he had installed sealed bearings...and soaked it all up with kitty litter when it was on the floor the next day...damn...stinky stuff...so...I pushed a whole tube of grease into a plastic bucket,mixed in about 1/3 90WT gear oil,packed it back into the tube,and injected it into the ALBION gearbox,and have been topping it off with 90WT...it still leaks on hot days,or after long rides...get the sealed bearings...better yet,do the RH shift conversion,AND sealed bearings...you're an Enfield owner,not a Honda Jockey...you can do this...